Thanks for the wall of info harry5522. I think the biggest problem is that the majority of gaming oriented laptops available today are not intended to be used for gaming while running on battery power. They tend to throttle severely and become unusable. A battery that is small enough to fit in a laptop is not powerful enough to run the CPU and Nvidia GPU at their rated speed so they are designed to throttle.
Your log file shows that when BD PROCHOT is disabled, the CPU speed is OK. It is not dropping down to 800 MHz like it was before. If the CPU is not throttling then try logging the GPU speed with GPU-Z or a similar monitoring program. The GPU is likely throttling.
EDP OTHER lighting up in red in ThrottleStop means the CPU has reached its Electrical Design Point which is often times the Current Limit. If this is only lighting up in red when on battery power then it is likely that this laptop reduces the Current Limit on battery power to protect the battery from damage. Trying to force a laptop to run beyond this limit while on battery power is going to be dangerous to your battery and ultimately to your laptop if the battery catches on fire.
When using ThrottleStop for undervolting, you need to specifically under volt the CPU Core and CPU Cache equally. If you do not do this, your under volt will be ignored. Your screenshot shows 0 for the CPU Cache under volt.
When Overclock is not checked in the FIVR window, your CPU will use its default maximum multipliers.
1 Core Active - 36
2 Cores Active - 34
3 Cores Active - 32
4 Cores Active - 32
The only thing that might help is using ThrottleStop to try and reduce power consumption. This can help free up some power for the GPU but if the GPU still wants to throttle, there might not be anything you can do.
Try checking off the Disable Turbo option in ThrottleStop. This should limit your CPU to a maximum multiplier of 27.
Your screenshot above shows Package Power consumption at 13.8 Watts when your CPU is mostly idle. It should be just over 2 Watts. This could indicate that you have disabled some of the low power C States. If your bios has this option, make sure that C States and C7 are enabled. With your CPU idle at the desktop, click on the ThrottleStop C7 button to open up the C States window. When idle, you should be seeing something like this for C State activity.
http://i.imgur.com/KB85Wl3.png
The game you are trying to play is not overly CPU demanding so having unused cores sitting idle in C7 will help save power.
One thing I noticed in your log was that the VID voltage is jumping up excessively to 1.26 V. I am not sure if this CPU supports using a Static voltage but if it does, with turbo boost enabled, your CPU should be able to run its default turbo multipliers reliably with a maximum voltage of 1.05 V. Try setting both the CPU Core and CPU Cache to this Static voltage. You can also try lowering the Maximum CPU Cache ratio to free up some more power.
In the Options window, click on the Add Limit Reasons to Log File option. This will give you a better idea when EDP OTHER is showing up and for how long. It might cycle on and off. If you have any success with any of this, try using www.pastebin.com to Copy and Paste some log file data to. This site preserves the log file formatting so it is easier to read then just post a link here.
You might also want to try using Nvidia Inspector or MSI Afterburner to adjust your GPU speed if your GPU is supported. Under clocking your GPU might save some power and prevent your GPU from jumping off the throttling cliff. You need to try and find a CPU and GPU speed that your laptop can consistently run at. When on battery power, you might be limited to only using the Intel GPU.
Your log file shows that when BD PROCHOT is disabled, the CPU speed is OK. It is not dropping down to 800 MHz like it was before. If the CPU is not throttling then try logging the GPU speed with GPU-Z or a similar monitoring program. The GPU is likely throttling.
EDP OTHER lighting up in red in ThrottleStop means the CPU has reached its Electrical Design Point which is often times the Current Limit. If this is only lighting up in red when on battery power then it is likely that this laptop reduces the Current Limit on battery power to protect the battery from damage. Trying to force a laptop to run beyond this limit while on battery power is going to be dangerous to your battery and ultimately to your laptop if the battery catches on fire.
When using ThrottleStop for undervolting, you need to specifically under volt the CPU Core and CPU Cache equally. If you do not do this, your under volt will be ignored. Your screenshot shows 0 for the CPU Cache under volt.
When Overclock is not checked in the FIVR window, your CPU will use its default maximum multipliers.
1 Core Active - 36
2 Cores Active - 34
3 Cores Active - 32
4 Cores Active - 32
The only thing that might help is using ThrottleStop to try and reduce power consumption. This can help free up some power for the GPU but if the GPU still wants to throttle, there might not be anything you can do.
Try checking off the Disable Turbo option in ThrottleStop. This should limit your CPU to a maximum multiplier of 27.
Your screenshot above shows Package Power consumption at 13.8 Watts when your CPU is mostly idle. It should be just over 2 Watts. This could indicate that you have disabled some of the low power C States. If your bios has this option, make sure that C States and C7 are enabled. With your CPU idle at the desktop, click on the ThrottleStop C7 button to open up the C States window. When idle, you should be seeing something like this for C State activity.
http://i.imgur.com/KB85Wl3.png
The game you are trying to play is not overly CPU demanding so having unused cores sitting idle in C7 will help save power.
One thing I noticed in your log was that the VID voltage is jumping up excessively to 1.26 V. I am not sure if this CPU supports using a Static voltage but if it does, with turbo boost enabled, your CPU should be able to run its default turbo multipliers reliably with a maximum voltage of 1.05 V. Try setting both the CPU Core and CPU Cache to this Static voltage. You can also try lowering the Maximum CPU Cache ratio to free up some more power.
In the Options window, click on the Add Limit Reasons to Log File option. This will give you a better idea when EDP OTHER is showing up and for how long. It might cycle on and off. If you have any success with any of this, try using www.pastebin.com to Copy and Paste some log file data to. This site preserves the log file formatting so it is easier to read then just post a link here.
You might also want to try using Nvidia Inspector or MSI Afterburner to adjust your GPU speed if your GPU is supported. Under clocking your GPU might save some power and prevent your GPU from jumping off the throttling cliff. You need to try and find a CPU and GPU speed that your laptop can consistently run at. When on battery power, you might be limited to only using the Intel GPU.
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